Isis is a powerful terrorist group that has seized control of large areas of the Middle East. It traces back to 2004 when it was known as “al Qaeda in Iraq” was formed. The United States Invasion of Iraq began in 2003, and in the aim of al Qaeda in Iraq was to remove western occupation and replace it with a Sunni Islamist Regime. Isis has also claimed responsibility for hundreds of terrorist attacks in the middle east and around the world. Isis has been called the richest terrorist organization in the world. The group was said to have made $2 million in 2014 alone. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the founder of the whole Isis group and was said to be the leader of everyone who was in the group. It was first formed in 1999 where it became the the …show more content…
It has to keep hidden while also running a state. They created a clandestine group of leaders anxious to protect themselves from rivals and airstrikes. But who also engaged in the mundane business of government. Isis became recognized around the world for carrying out heinous acts of violence, including public executions, rapes, beheadings and crucifixions. Isis uses modern tools like social media to promote reactionary politics and religious fundamentalism. In 2014, Isis controlled more than 34,000 square miles in Syria and Iraq from the Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad. At the end of 2016, Isis territory had shrunk to about 23,230 square miles. The leader has said to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi he was reportedly based in Syria. Al-Baghdadi was detained for several months in Camp Bucca, which was a US run prison in southern Iraq. He was later released in 2004. The development for Isis is very dangerous because of their mobility. They are also ruthless and extremely violent, carrying out mass beheadings as a regular practice of territorial control. Their laws are strict and absolute often utilizing archaic methods. In 2011,major changes occurred in the Middle East social system. The youths and women as well as other minority groups began to realize their …show more content…
The Americans failed to established effective Iraqi army and security forces to fill the newly-created security vacuum. The branch of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, established in 2004 entered the security vacuum and took advantage of the increasing political societal Sunni alienation. Isis has risen from an Al-Qaeda franchise to a self-proclaimed state and one of the most potent threats in the Middle East. After the United States led coalition has battled the Islamic State, firing thousands of airstrikes across Iraq and Syria. The terrorist group that aims to established a brutal Caliphate in gaining ground. In fact, the current structure that Isis is much more than a terrorist organization, it is a terrorist state with almost all governing elements. Over the last three years since the beginning of the civil war with Syria. The Islamic state developed from an extremist fringe and marginal faction that was participating in the civil war. They became the strongest, most ferocious, best funded and best armed military in the religious and ethnic war that is waged today in Syria and